Nine-year-old Sean Year­wood has left a unique record among the 120 play­ers who took part in the Caribbean Chess Car­ni­val held at the Queen's Park Oval last week.

The Trin­i­ty Ju­nior School stu­dent is the on­ly play­er to fin­ish the sev­en-round tour­na­ment with a per­fect score, top­ping the 16 play­ers in the Un­der 10 group with sev­en points.

In sec­ond and third places, re­spec­tive­ly, were Le­Bron Al­fred on six and Ky­ron Agos­ti­ni on five.

This win en­hances the string of vic­to­ries that Year­wood has scored over the last two years and re­in­forces the po­si­tion he has earned as the coun­try's lead­ing un­der-ten chess play­er.

Ear­li­er this year he led the Un­der 11 group in the Pan Am Scholas­tic Cham­pi­onship at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um. In 2011 the Trin­i­ty Ju­nior school­boy emerged the Un­der 8 Na­tion­al Cham­pi­on and took the Un­der 10 ti­tle in the fol­low­ing year.

Among his sev­er­al oth­er vic­to­ries was his suc­cess in the Un­der 10 cat­e­go­ry of the Carif­ta Games.

Year­wood learned the game from his fa­ther and de­vel­oped un­der var­i­ous coach­es in­clud­ing lead­ing play­er Alex Win­ter Roach.

FM Keron Cabralis made an im­pres­sive re­turn to the sport by top­ping the Un­der 20 group, fin­ish­ing on five-and-a-half points.

Be­hind him by half a point was Or­lan­do Hus­bands of Bar­ba­dos with Vish­nu Singh tak­ing third place on four-and-a-half.

Yu Tien Poon of Bar­ba­dos played un­beat­en to lead the Un­der 14s on six and a half. Joshua John­son fin­ished a full point be­hind him with Anvi­ti Ad­hin of Suri­name plac­ing third on five.

Pierre Chang of the Nether­lands al­so played un­beat­en among the Un­der 12s, scor­ing six, half a point ahead of Car­los Javier Cas­tro Bel­lo of Cu­ba and Mikel Mar­tin.

The Novices group saw the largest en­try, 24 play­ers, and the keen­est com­pe­ti­tion with three play­ers top­ping on six points each, re­quir­ing a tie-break sep­a­ra­tion–Shev Na­gir, Matthew Sura­jbal­ly and Isi­ah Mon­de­sir.

The tour­na­ment, or­gan­ised by the T&T Chess Foun­da­tion and spon­sored by First Cit­i­zens As­set Man­age­ment Ltd, at­tract­ed 120 play­ers from the re­gion, in­clud­ing Bar­ba­dos, Cu­ba, Suri­name, the Nether­lands and the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic.

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